THE belief that the word ‘chromatography’ was coined by Tswett 1 about 1906 is incorrect; it appears to have been widely used, though with a different connotation, for more than a century and ...
Chromatography is a technique used to separate soluble substances that have been mixed together. It’s normally used to separate coloured mixtures, like food colourings. We are going to use ...
Sometimes a scientist needs to figure out what is in a certain mixture of substances. One way they can do this is to use a process called chromatography. In the activity below, you can try ...
(Video embedded below.) For those who haven’t had the pleasure, gas chromatography is a chemical analytical method that’s capable of breaking a volatile sample up into its component parts.